You can sign your git commits with GPG to cryptographically verify the commit is really from you. I’m not going to cover how to sign a commit with a GPG key, but rather how to make this work with SourceTree (a good, free graphical Git tool). It isn’t quite so...
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Update Windows 10 Enterprise to 1709 (Fall Creators Update)
Manually update Windows 10 Enterprise
So Microsoft released version 1709, also called Fall Creators Update. This post deals with how to upgrade Enterprise editions of Windows to 1709 since Microsoft doesn’t push the version 1709 to Enterprise editions. Yet. If you are running the latest version of Windows Enterprise (as of this writing) you should...
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Use CloudFormer template in AWS CloudFormation (China Region)
Change default ports of an EC2 machine generated by a CloudFormation template in AWS CN
So, I happened upon a particularly tricky issue. I am using the AWS Beijing Region (cn-north-1) and I wanted to create a CloudFormation template of our environment. Amazon provides a template called CloudFormer in their CloudFormation page
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Delete URL history from Chrome
Selectively clear URLs that you don't want showing up when typing in Chrome's navigation bar
Sometimes you’ve accidentally typed a URL into Chrome and now it shows up each time you try to enter the original URL. How do you get rid of that annoying entry?
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Run SpinRite from a Virtual Machine (VM)
How to run SpinRite in a VM testing multiple disks at once
SpinRite is used to work on failed/failing hard disks, SSDs. The problem with SpinRite is that the current version (6.0) was released more than a decade ago in 2004. As such, not all computers may be boot into SpinRite and detect hard disks. It doesn’t support UEFI hence, one solution...
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